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2020 University Lecture: Joseph P. Mizgerd, Boston University
Joseph P. Mizgerd, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Biochemistry; and Director, BU Pulmonary Center
From Cough to COVID: How Respiratory Infections Produce Problems and Our Bodies Fight Back. Respiratory infections are a persistent and [...]pervasive public health problem, occasionally intensifying into urgent crises like COVID-19. Our respiratory tracts make us vulnerable, constantly exposed to the dangerous and microbe-rich outside world. When bacteria and viruses get in the lungs, the interactions range from inconsequential to life-threatening. Whether coronavirus or other causes, the helpful and harmful ways our bodies respond dictate the outcome of these infections.
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2016 University Lecture Presented by Richard B. Primack, Professor of Biology
Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods. For more than a decade, Professor Primack and his team have been using Henry David Thoreau’s records from the 1850s as a baseline to document the earlier flowering and leafing out [...]of plants, the variable responses of migratory birds, and the earlier melting of ice on Walden Pond. Wildflowers are also declining. If Thoreau were alive today, would he still recognize the Walden he chronicled 160 years ago?
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